Beatrice Glow is a an American multidisciplinary artist of Taiwanese heritage bridging public history and just futures. Stemming from drawing and painting, her practice includes sculptural installations, textiles, olfactory experiences, emerging media, and performances. She questions the visual and material languages of luxury, power and aromatic cultural histories. Often working in allyship with Indigenous culture bearers and co-laboring with researchers, her projects on the exploitation of botanical life reveals the contemporary ramifications of colonialism, capitalism, and inequitable trade networks.
Recent solo shows include “When Our Rivers Meet,” New-York Historical Society (2024); “The Collection of the EoS 10^15,” Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2023); “Once the Smoke Clears,” Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2022), “Forts and Flowers,” Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan (2019); “Spice Routes/Roots,” Duke House, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, NY (2017); and “Aromérica Parfumeur,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile (2016). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, New York (2022); Westfries Museum, Hoorn, Netherlands (2021); Park Avenue Armory, New York (2018); Galeri Nasional Indonesia (2017) and Honolulu Biennial (2017).
Currently the 2022-2024 Artist-in-Residence at New-York Historical Society, she is also an artist-in-residence with the “Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories project” that has brought together an interdisciplinary team to research the excavated remains of the 17th century Batavia shipwreck in Western Australia. Her Gilt/Guilt project received a 2024 Creative Capital Award.
Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts “Grants for Arts Projects”, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Culpeper Arts and Culture Grant, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence Programme, Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Smack Mellon Studio Program; ZERO1: Art and Technology Network, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, EmergeNYC, Hemispheric Institute, and the Fulbright Scholar Program. She lives and works between the Bay Area and New York.
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Beatrice Glow is a New York and Bay Area-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes examinations of archives and collaboration with culture bearers and researchers in the creation of sculptural installations, textiles, emerging media, and olfactory experiences to envision a more just and thriving world guided by history. An American of Taiwanese heritage, she questions the visual and material languages of power and aromatic cultural histories. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at New-York Historical Society and Baltimore Museum of Art, amongst others. Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Yale-NUS College, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, the Fulbright Program, and many more.